Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-11
CONCENTRATING WORKS.
Challis MESSENGER

"o'se 10 Settihg ready Tor more
active operations than have been 60
ing on there for years. Only very
few months since, our old friend Bee
bee, the veteran mill builder, was
called by o. J. Salisbury & Co., to
erect concentrating works for the re-
duction of the Beardsley ores; and
short as the time has been he has it
almost ready to run. By the 10th OF
October, if the necessary materials
arrive, everything will be ready to
move, like Antony's speech, fright
on and on" From all we can see
Bayhorse has prosperous future at
hand.
THE BUILDING
Is one hundred and six feet high
above the basement floor, and is one
hundred and twenty feet in length
and fifty feet in width, with wing.
1t is put up in thorough and work.
manllke manner and as neatly done
as structures Of that nature common
ly are. 1t is covered with corrugat-
ed iron roofing, and is, mostly, thor
oughly painted. The whole exterior
bears an air of permanence and thrift
never before seen in this camp, and
argues well for the future.
The ore from the Beardsley is to
come on rail track which enters
near the top of the building, deliver
ing it at large Blake crusher, which
is fed by hand. The track is built
on trestle work to the hill ON grade
with the entrance into the concentra-
tor building. From the point where
it strikes the hill it runs west about
forty rods, then forming Y returns
east on ground grade until it ap-
proaches near the wagon road where
it is again borne on trestles to pass
over the road. The whole line will
be half mile in length, on a descent
of one foot in ten, from the ore house
at the mine to the crusher. The ore
is first passed through the immense
Blake crusber, and then dropped into
a Hendy automatic ore feeder which
passes it to smaller crusher (Blake
style) through which it is passed, still
further refining it, when it is dropped
into Krom's steel rolls, from the rolls
to screens, then to hydraulic light
er, which distributes to four jigs on
the next floor below the rolls. From
the jigs, what needs further reduc-
ton passes to a Fraser & Chalmers
ter, stamp battery, and from there is
distributed to two Frue Vanners
(Triumph) and one English Doodle
table, eighteen feet in diameter. The
building is so arranged that when
once the rock is delivered into the
hands of the machinery, the power of
gravitation carries it from one pro-
cess of reduction to another until it is
supposed to have no remnant of min
eral wealth that has not been care
fully separated from the waste. Ev-
erything seems to be adapted to the
use for which it is placed here; and
we look for great results, not only to
the owners of these new works, but
to our country, from this new placed
machinery.
Capacity of the works, sixty five
tons per day.
The water wheel which propels the
whole machinery is the Pelton, prob
ably the most philosophically arrang-
ed instrument for the economy of
power yet invented. This will run
under a pressure of something over
800 feet, and will, undoubtedly, be
good for much more than present re-
quirements. 1t is claimed for this
wheel that, under scrutinizing test,
i6 gave 90.2 per cent. impaired pow
er. If SO, the inventor may we'll be
pleased with his production, and it
will benefit mankind.
A new disease, called ''Poke Easy"